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Us3 were a British jazz rap group founded by London-based producer Geoff Wilkinson in 1992. The name was inspired by Us Three , a Horace Parlan album produced in 1960 by Alfred Lion , the founder of Blue Note Records . [ 1 ]
"Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" is a song by British jazz-rap group Us3, originally released in October 1992 by Blue Note Records as the lead single from the group's debut album, Hand On the Torch (1993). The song was recorded as a demo a year before the group's first release and features a sample of Herbie Hancock's song "Cantaloupe Island".
Hand on the Torch is the debut studio album by British jazz rap group Us3.It received widespread attention due to its mixture of jazz with hip-hop music, with material from popular jazz musicians of the 20th century being reimagined.
An Ordinary Day in an Unusual Place is the third album by the jazz-rap group Us3, released in 2001. [2] [3] DJ First Rate, Michelob, and Alison Crokett contributed to the album. [1] It was recorded in the home studio of Geoff Wilkinson. [4] The album's first single was "You Can't Hold Me Down". [5]
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Broadway & 52nd is the second studio album by jazz-rap group Us3 and has a more dark, conscious mood to it than their first album. On the album, the group continued mixing live musicians with samples and hip hop lyrics. While the album was not as well received as the debut album Hand on the Torch, it represented a more mature approach to jazz rap.
The jazz rap group Us3 sampled "Cantaloupe Island" in their song "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)", from their album Hand On the Torch (1993). "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" was recorded as a demo a year before the group's first release.
Schizophonic is the fifth album by music producer Geoff Wilkinson's jazz/rap fusion project Us3.It features a more upbeat approach than most of the tracks from previous albums by Us3, and—as on the previous 2004 album Questions—no samples but live recordings were used in its production.